From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Culture

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — Sam Anderson

Best magazine essay I’ve read in the last year. No jokes about skimming: read it.

Over the last several years, the problem of attention has

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Culture

Brewster Kahle – How Google Threatens Books

Broad access is the greatest promise of our digital age. Giving control over such access to one company, no matter how clever or popular, is …

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Researchers Making New Literary Discoveries That Will Eventually Be Owned By Google

Originally in:

[Link.] Via The Awl.…

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Technology

Twitter To Add On Live-Time Wikipedia News Thingey!

[Link.] Twitter is going to turn its search results into a real-time Google News-Wikipedia mash-up? Or, you could say, a giant topic-indexed blog …

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Culture

Creative minds: the links between mental illness and creativity

[Via The Independent.] Creative minds in all kinds of areas, from science to poetry, and mathematics to humour, may have traits associated with …

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Culture

Essay – Our Two Cultures

[via Essay – Our Two Cultures – NYTimes.com.] Today, others believe science now addresses the human condition in ways Snow did not anticipate. For …

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